Columbia Metropolitan Airport
The Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) is much like a 2600-acre city with more than 50 agencies and businesses located on the airport property. Air passenger and cargo service is provided by scheduled airlines, jet freight carriers, two fixed base operators, and various charter flights.
Air operations are conducted on an 8600' x 150' runway and an 8000' x 150' runway.
Annually, the airport serves more than 1.2 million passengers and processes more than 168,000 tons of air cargo.
The Airport hosts several services, including a gift shop, the Everett Adams Memorial chapel, restaurants and bars inside the terminal, and an eatery. Free wireless Internet service is provided throughout the airport as well as small number of recharge stations with access to outlets.
The airport is conveniently located to interstate highways I-26, I-20, I-77 and nearby I-95.
For the convenience of visitors who need to reach us by car, go to most any search engine (Google, MSN, Yahoo, Netscape) and click on Maps. Your GPS destination address is 3250 Airport Blvd, West Columbia, SC 29170 or use our airport identifier CAE.
Parking at CAE
The following is a brief guide to help you obtain the best results from this Airport's Parking resource page.
The Airport Parking rates, garages and lots etc are currently managed by the airport authority. The parking rate schedule is subject to change and may have been revised since the last update of this page - please check for the latest fees through the parking map and rate calculator above or by visiting the Airport's official web site.
Columbia Metropolitan Airport opened a multi-level parking structure on October 16th 2003. The project, which began in February 2001, now has 1,837 parking spaces in the parking garage with 40 handicap spaces and 1,668 spaces of uncovered parking available in the surface parking lot, which includes 15 handicap parking spaces. Both parking areas combined gives the traveling public 3,505 available parking spaces.
Three choices are available to pay garage and surface parking fees:
1. Take a ticket to enter the lot or the garage. Upon exiting the parking facility, use Auto Exits 3 or 4. Insert the parking ticket in the reader and then insert a credit card of your choice. The reader displays the fee and automatically charges your credit card, prints and dispenses a receipt and opens the gate for you to exit.
2. Take a ticket to enter the lot or th e garage. Keep the ticket with you. When you are ready to leave, you may pay inside the terminal at the Republic Parking Pay Station located in the main lobby near the Information Desk. Insert your parking ticket to pay. The ticket will recode as paid to allow you to proceed through the exit booth. You will only have 20 minutes from the time you pay to exit the parking facility without incurring additional charges. Drive to the exit plaza and enter automated lanes 3 or 4 and insert the ticket.
3. Take a ticket to enter the lot or garage. Exit through one of the Cashier lanes and pay the cashier at the exit booth.
Republic Parking System manages the airport public parking lots. For any additional questions concerning parking, please contact Republic Parking at 803-822-8474.
For more information, please visit http://www.columbiaairport.com/
